SunFrog Legal

We at SunFrog take the protection of Intellectual Property ("IP") rights very seriously. SunFrog is a service provider through which a user can open an account and upload designs they claim as their own to offer for sale on t-shirts, sweatshirt hoodies, and other apparel. As we are a service provider, all content on the sunfrog.com platform is user-generated. While some employees may choose to open an account and upload designs on their own time, none of these designs are uploaded by SunFrog employees as part of their job, as a requirement for their job, or as part of their employment duties. Users control the content of the design they upload, the pricing of the design, what options are offered for each design, and which designs they will offer on the SunFrog platform.

As we are dedicated to protecting the IP of others, we have several protections in place. Included in these is that each account holder must attest/swear that they are the owner of any/all designs (and all component parts of any design) they upload, that they are working on behalf of the owner of the IP, or have acquired the right to use the IP from the owner of same. Unfortunately there are users who do not respect such rights. In the age of the internet it is impossible for any one person or organization to know every design that enjoys protection under IP law. We therefore strictly comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). The DMCA provide a method for owners of protected IP to submit an infringement claim to a service provider such as SunFrog. Once a claim is submitted, the DMCA requires that we respond in certain ways and within certain time-frames. The text of the DMCA can be found at the following link: www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf.

In order to make submitting an infringement claim as easy as possible, we have prepared a "Report and Infringement" portal. The portal has places for you to supply all of the information required to submit a complete DMCA claim. The portal can be found at the following link: www.sunfrog.com/Legal/report.cfm. Completing this form and submitting through this portal will ensure that none of the information required to submit a proper DMCA claim is accidentally omitted. Additionally, it usually results in a quicker response time to the submission of a claim and allows us to not only track what designs are being infringed upon, but also helps us track what user uploaded the design. Once we receive the claim we will act quickly to remove any infringing designs and take the appropriate action against the user who has violated not only SunFrogâ€™s terms of use, but also IP law in general. It is our goal for the SunFrog platform to be free from any and all infringing designs. By submitting the information required under the DMCA you are greatly assisting us in reaching this goal. We thank you for taking the time to let us know about any violations!